Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
From Risk factors to Prognosis in Myelodysplasic Syndromes: The Role of Genetic Variance
(Ana Bela Sarmento-Ribeiro, André Barbosa Ribeiro, Emília Nobre Barata Roxo Cortesão, José Manuel Nascimento Costa, Oncobiology and Hematology Lab, University Clinic of Haematology and Applied Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra – Coimbra, Portugal, and others)
Chapter 2
The Inflammatory and Autoimmune Nature of Myelodysplastic Syndromes
(Ota Fuchs, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic)
Chapter 3
Pathogenesis of 5q- Syndrome
(Ota Fuchs, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic)
Chapter 4
Genetic Mutations Identified in Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Their Significance
(Ota Fuchs, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic)
Chapter 5
Risk Factors and Prognostic Scoring Systems in Argentinean Patients with MDS: A Multicentric Study
(Carolina B. Belli, Jacqueline Gonzalez, Virna Barcalá, Marcela de Dios Soler, Marcelo Iastrebner, and María Gabriela Flores, Laboratorio de Genética Hematológica, Instituto de Medicina Experimental (IMEX-CONICET)/ ANM, Academia Nacional de Medicina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and others)
Chapter 6
Epigenetics and Epigenetic Therapy of Myelodysplastic Syndromes
(Ota Fuchs, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic)
Chapter 7
Introduction of Mild Oral Chemotherapy for Elderly Patients with Higher-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes
(Akira Horikoshi, Department of General Internal Medicine, Nerima-Hikarigaoka Hospital, Japan)
Chapter 8
Lenalidomide Treatment in Lower Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes
(Ota Fuchs, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic)
Chapter 9
The Old and The New-Integrating Prognostic Models and Mutational Advances with Epigenetic and Cellular Therapies for Myelodysplastic Syndromes
(Uma Borate and Antonio Di Stasi, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA)
Chapter 10
Entropy Evaluation of Bone Marrow Biopsies in Myelodysplastic Syndromes
(Giorgio Bianciardi, and Pietro Luzi, Dept. of Medical biotechnologies, Anatomia Patologica, Siena University, Siena, Italy, and others)
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